Female urine strainers and samplers

Abstract

The present invention includes strainers used to gather solids from voided urine. Embodiments include urinary bowl strainers, hand-held strainers and disposable hand-held urine strainers, all of which are particularly useful for gathering kidney stones passed in urine that are intended for verification of passing said kidney stones, and for laboratory analysis which may be used to guide clinical treatment to prevent recurrent kidney stone formation. Embodiments of disposable urine samplers are also disclosed. The embodiments of urine strainers and samplers disclosed herein are particularly adapted for use by female patients, though male patients may also use the devices.

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COPYRIGHT NOTICE[0001]A portion of the disclosure of this patent document contains material which is subject to copyright protection. The copyright owner has no objection to the facsimile reproduction by anyone of the patent document or the patent disclosure, as it appears in the Patent and Trademark Office patent file or records, but otherwise reserves all copyright rights whatsoever.CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS[0002]This US non-provisional utility patent application claims benefit and priority to U.S. provisional patent application No. 62 / 489,251 filed on Apr. 24, 2017, titled “FEMALE URINE STRAINER”, the contents of which are incorporated by reference as if fully set forth herein for all purposes.BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTIONField of the Invention[0003]The present invention relates generally to urine strainers used by patients with kidney stones and urine samplers. More particularly, this invention relates to urine strainers designed for the unique physical needs of fema...

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